What Causes the “Failed to Fork” Error With Ubuntu in Windows 10?
After receiving numerous reports from multiple users, we decided to investigate the issue and devised a set of solutions to fix it completely. Also, we looked into the reasons due to which it is triggered and listed them as follows: Now that you have a basic understanding of the nature of the problem, we will move on towards the solutions. Make sure to implement these in the specific order in which they are presented to avoid conflicts.
Solution 1: Disabling Antivirus
If you have a third party antivirus or Firewall installed it is recommended to completely disable it or add an exclusion for the Ubuntu application since it might be disabling some components of the application due to which the error might be triggered. In order to add an exclusion:
Solution 2: Creating New Swap File
It is possible that the Storage on the Swap File was running out due to which the error was being triggered. Therefore, in this step, we will be creating a new Swap file. For that:
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